Word: raab
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Patricia Graham, director of the Radcliffe Institute, was among those considered for the post of president of Barnard College, but the first choice of the Barnard presidential search committee is expected to be Jacqueline Nattfeld, a Brown administrator, David Raab, editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator, said yesterday...
...Raab's biggest story came to him almost accidentally. In 1964, when he was working at the New York World-Telegram and Sun, he was leafing through newsclips in the morgue and noticed that George Whitmore Jr., who had allegedly confessed to killing two young women in 1963, was in Bellevue Hospital for "observation." Out of curiosity, Raab looked into the case-and ended up dogging it for eight years. He proved that Whitmore was somewhere else the day of the killings and helped to clear him. It took seven years to find a witness (in Puerto Rico) whose...
...reporter resembles the TV cop only in his knowledge of New York's streets. As a teen-ager on the Lower East Side, where he still lives with his wife and their four-year-old daughter, Raab remembers being "surrounded by the kind of legendary criminals you read about-bookmakers, con artists, Jewish and Italian gangsters. I grew up with guys I later covered." The son of Polish and Austrian immigrants, Raab boxed in the 60-lb. class for the city parks department (17 wins) and later attended City College. Afterward he worked on Connecticut and New Jersey newspapers...
...Raab's latest expose began last fall when he was approached by several people skeptical about the validity of Hurricane Carter's conviction. Raab agreed to read the trial transcript and found the case against Carter and Artis weak. He returned to the bar where the shootings occurred and retraced the steps of two key witnesses, Arthur D. Bradley and Alfred P. Bello, who were burglarizing a nearby sheet-metal company at the time of the Shootout. At the trial, both witnesses gave the impression that they were next door to the murder scene. Raab discovered that...
Nasty Dog. Finally, in August, the men agreed to sign statements that they had perjured themselves. They told Raab and Public Defense Investigator Fred Hogan that Paterson police, incensed over Carter's earlier public protests against police brutality, had promised them protection if they implicated the two men. After further checking, Raab-who had moved from WNET to the New York Times while following the case-broke the story on Sept. 27. "Once Selwyn gets on a story, he's like a nasty dog yapping at your leg," observes CBS Reporter Milagros Ardin, a former co-worker...